User talk:Sezekiel

Welcome[edit]

Greetings...

Hello, Sezekiel, and welcome to Wikipedia!

To get started, click on the green welcome.

I hope you like it here and decide to stay!

Happy editing! jbmurray (talk • contribs) 01:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Magical Realism Reconsidered[edit]

I'm looking forward to working with your class during the semester - if you have any questions about the project or Wikipedia in general, please feel free to leave me a note at User talk:Awadewit. Wikipedians are here to help you! Awadewit (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography assignment[edit]

Hi, here are the details of the MRR annotated bibliography assignment...

Good Wikipedia articles are built on a foundation of good sources. In this respect, Wikipedia articles are not much different from academic essays. In fact, if anything a good Wikipedia article is more reliant on good sources than are other academic or scholarly texts. The whole notion of verifiability, which is the first of the encyclopedia's five pillars, depends upon reliable sources.

The aim of this bibliography assignment, then, is to identify, read, and comment on the most important and reliable sources that relate to the topic of your chosen article.

In coordination with your group, you need to do the following:

Identify the most important sources for your topic. These will be both books and articles. They will vary depending upon the kind of topic you have chosen, but to give a couple of examples this book is a key one for the general topic of magic realism, while this biography would be essential for the article on Gabriel García Márquez.
Use databases and the Koerner library catalogue to identify these sources. Look for as many as possible in the first instance; you will later choose between them. On the whole, they will not be online sources (though of course many articles are now available online thanks to JSTOR and other services).
Aim to come up with a long list of, say, 5-20 books and perhaps 15-40 articles. Obviously, for some topics there will be more material than for others. So for some topics you will need to do more searching; for other topics, you will need to be more careful and discerning as you choose between sources. Look far and wide and be inventive in thinking about good sources.
In some cases, the article may already have a number of references, either in the article itself, or perhaps somewhere in its talkpage archives. You should take account of these, but you should still undertake your own search, not least to find new material that has not been considered before.
To figure out what you need, you will also have to look at your article and consider what it is missing, what needs to be improved, where it could do with better sources, etc. In other words, you will have to start planning how you are going to work on and rewrite the article.
Come up with a final short list of c. 2-4 books and perhaps 6-24 articles.
Put the long list (of all the sources you have found) as well as the short list (of the sources you have decided are the most important) on your article's talk page by Wednesday, January 20.
Distribute the sources among the members of your group. Each person should be reading the equivalent of one full book or six articles. Exceptionally long books may be divided up between group members.
Read the sources, bearing in mind the information that is going to be useful as you work on the article. Think about what it covers and take a note of particular page numbers.
Produce an annotated bibliography of the sources you have read. This will consist of a summary or précis of the most important aspects of the texts, which should be at least 150 words long for each article read; 600 words for each book. You should put this on your user page by Monday, February 8.

To coordinate with the other members of your group (whose names you can find here), use their talk pages. Each time that you log in to Wikipedia, you will notice that if you have a message waiting for you, there will be a yellow banner at the top of the page.

Good luck! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Encouragement[edit]

Sezekiel, just to say good job on getting going on the bibliography for Leyendas de Guatemala. (Rekarrr is also clearly on the case.) One word of advice is that you might want to drop notes on other people's talk pages: then they get the little yellow bar to remind them to check their messages. Again, good luck! --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 23:10, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi[edit]

So i started somewhat of a conversation thread on our article's talk page. Let me know what you think. Cheers. --Rekarrr (talk) 04:22, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

yea[edit]

Yeah, let's just focus on the written part. As much as I'd love to browse through the endless crap... (i mean useful info?) that whomever linked there for us, I'm pretty sure we don't have time. I'm gonna add the stuff abt magical realism etc, now. --Rekarrr (talk) 17:24, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Submissionnnnnn time (i think? yes yes)[edit]

Hey Dude and Dudettes! I proofred the ENTIRE freakin article, edited, added more info where we needed to fill in holes, added little sections (like see also and related reading or whatever) that the good article criteria requires, added an info box and some photos. I'm thinking lets send her off to good article consideration land? I dont know how to do that but im sure i can wiki it (ha-ha-ha). So edit or add whatever you guys still want, or let me know if youre ok to send it, but in either case if no one replies to me by saturday night im sending it. Sounds like a plan? Let me know what you all think. It looks pretty sweet tho. go team...bot... (btw im gna copy paste to your talk pages for extra awareness purposes) --Rekarrr (talk) 05:48, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ok[edit]

ooooh i didnt know he did that. sweetness. im trying to get the rights for the main photo at the top but no ones really helping - meaning the wikipedia people. i asked "help desk" but nada yet. hopefully soon... im wrking on the essay for monday. did you pick a topic yet?--Rekarrr (talk) 00:07, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

totally understand what you mean, i feel like i'm going crazy too. I'm writing on Asturias just because I already have so much info on him, and i really liked some of the Leyendas. But I might try to throw a little McOndo in there, because some of that was kinda cool too, but I'm not sure how. Arrg--Rekarrr (talk) 02:09, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]